The COFFIN CARDs DECK
Coffin Cards is a collection of 115 questions with the intention to reflect upon and explore our mortality and navigate grief on your own or with loved ones. They can be used as journaling prompts or as conversation starters with friends and family to begin contemplating important end of life questions. Answering these questions can lead to a more fulfilling life, as well as ease the anxiety and fear around death by increasing our familiarity to it. With Coffin Cards you will begin the journey to prepare for the great unknown mystery of Death.
Answer QUESTioNS such as...
How can we make our society more supportive around death and grief?
If you had the chance, would you live forever? Why or why not?
What would happen in your life if you died tomorrow?
If you were cremated, what would you like to be done with your ashes?
What objects or offerings would you like to be placed on your grave or altar?
What role has art and creativity played in your grieving process?
About US
Alejandro Salinas is the Vice President of the Chicago Death Doula Collective, Conscious Dying Coach, Clinical Massage Therapist, Yoga Teacher, Dream Guide, Grief Advocate, and Musician. He has always had an interest in the morbid and shadow aspects of life. He attended his first Death Café while studying Clinical Massage Therapy in 2014. Death Café’s are group directed discussion circles exploring death, dying, grief, and loss with the goal of ending the taboo around talking about death. In 2017 he received his Yoga Teacher Training certificate and began teaching Dream Yoga, a practice of awakening, and preparation for death and dying in the Tibetan Buddhist, and Toltec traditions. He Co-hosted The Dream Freaks podcast alongside Tree Carr, Jennifer Claroscura and teaches Dream Yoga weekly at Chi Yoga Shack. In 2018 he received End of Life Specialist certification from Rainbow Hospice. He trained with The Conscious Dying Collective in 2023. He hosts recurring Death Café’s in Chicago and at festivals around the midwest.
